Senior Software Engineer, Waymo

Model Evaluation, Simulation

$204-259k

Eligible for annual bonus program and equity incentive plan

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

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Autonomous driving technology

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Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

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$204-259k

Eligible for annual bonus program and equity incentive plan

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Company mission

To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Coding and design skills
5+ years of experience navigating a complex product space and setting technical roadmaps
5+ years of experience building scalable infrastructure, or in evaluating complex systems

What the job involves

The Simulator team builds state of the art simulations of realistic environments for the testing and training of the Waymo driver
We use machine learning to model the real world, including realistic agents (vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists), roads, traffic control systems, and weather
To guide the development of simulator realism components, we create metrics to measure realism, which are used to assess the quality of the simulator, identify sim2real gaps, and used as loss functions to train a more realistic simulator - which in turn is used to assess the quality of the Waymo Driver
In this hybrid role you will report to a Engineering Director
Develop novel methods to measure sim realism in the context of several simulator tech and applications
Develop efficient platform to allow measuring sim realism at scale
Design systems that can automatically discover useful realism metrics to guide simulator development
Collaborate with a world-class engineering and research team that use large models to improve sim realism
Be a part of a collaborative engineering team that build a realistic simulator which powers the evaluation of the Waymo Driver

Our take

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.

With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Aug 2024

$5.6bn

SERIES C

Jun 2021

$2.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $11.1bn

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Dmitri Dolgov

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.

Tekedra N. Mawakana

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.

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